A proposed Whatcom County levy for emergency medical services was passing by a microscopic margin of 14 votes out of over 106,000, in a new tally released Friday.
Over the past 1 ½ weeks ballot counts showed the measure failing by over 170 votes – still a slim margin. The gap had closed to five by the middle of this week, and this is the first time the “yes” vote has exceeded the 60 percent threshold needed to pass, with 60.01 voting in favor.
About 200 new ballots were counted over the past two days. Hundreds of votes are still in play. Many of those are ballots with signatures that didn’t match the ones on record, so those voters need to confirm their ballots by Nov. 28.